To me, Cliff Richard and Freddie Mercury always seemed an unlikely pair of friends.
The thing I didn't know was that Richard was born in India and because of his accent and complexion he, strangely, faced anti-Indian racism when his family moved back to Britain.
Freddie Mercury's family was from India and he was educated there in a British type boarding school. When he fled to Britain with his family from Zanzibar he also had to deal with racism.
So Cliff and Freddie actually had a weirdly shared/similar background.
I think they only performed together once, singing It's In Everyone of Us as part of a charity performance of the musical Time back in 1988.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9R1H-5Dtpw
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